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Australian Stories offers students knowledge content and critical skills that are valued in many fields. It is the second course in the English Literature major and is offered in the interdisciplinary majors for Australian Studies, Popular Culture and Writing & Society. The course is also regularly recommended to students in Education programs. The skills in reading, interpretation, research, and essay writing taught in this course remain useful throughout a student鈥檚 program of study and beyond, as attributes in postgraduate study, general employability, and lifelong learning.

This course serves as an introduction to Australian stories and the role they play in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories and will direct particular attention to the way in which narrative reimagines social, cultural and political values.

On completion of this course students should be able to demonstrate:

1. apply disciplinary concepts and cultural literacy in explaining the relationship between form and theme in selected Australian narratives as the product of particular social, cultural and political formations;
2. employ basic written disciplinary communication skills by expressing an analytical argument in written form using appropriate disciplinary conventions;
3. demonstrate academic and professional literacy skills by competently using a vocabulary of critical terms to apply to the reading of texts;
4. utilise learned discipline-based information literacy in identifying appropriate secondary sources for use in researching a response to an essay task;
5. demonstrate ethical research and inquiry skills by comprehending and applying norms and practices of academic integrity;
6. consistently provide evidence of reflective practice through participation in course discussion and by improving performance in the second research essay based on feedback from the first.